LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:

DATE:

TIME:

SCHOOL:

CLASS:

11 year-olds, A1

Teaching unit :

Get Ready: Your Family

Type of lesson :

Presentation, practice, revision

Sources:

Challenges 1 Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Handbook

Aims and objectives :

Revising vocabulary related to family; numbers; months; subject pronouns/possessive adjectives

Teaching methods :

conversation, presentation, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing, speaking

Class management :

whole class, individual work, pair work, group work

Teaching aids, materials

and equipment :

students book, workbook, CD; board, chalk, CD-player

Aims and
objectives

Class organization procedures and activities

Interaction

Teaching
aids and
materials

Possible problems
and solutions

TIMING

STAGES

Class profile:

partIntroductory

Introduce the
topic, elicit ideas
and vocabulary,
spark interest

Warm-up: Ask several Ss to spell their first names. Then check homework.
Introduce the aim of the class and ask Ss to put the numbers in order in the
Key Words section. Ss listen to a recording and check their answers.

T Ss

Exercise 2: Ask Ss whether they can notice the difference while listening to the
recording in this exercise. Ask Ss to mark the difference in spelling in their
notebooks.

T SS
S-S

SB
CD
CD player

10
min

SB
CD
CD player

25
min

Main part

Extra: Dictate a series of numbers ending in teen or ty for Ss to write.

Revise
vocabulary and
target language
in context

Exercises 3: Ask Ss to work in pairs and check the meaning of Key Words in
the Picture Dictionary. Check that Ss understand how the family tree works.
Exercise 4: Ss complete the family relationships in their notebooks. Elicit
answers in open class.

T - SS
SS
T - SS
S-S

Exercise 5: Ss work in pairs and ask and answer about the people in the family
tree. Check pronunciation of names in the family tree.
Revise the verb
forms of to be

Exercise 6: Ask Ss to read about the people from the family tree and guess
who they are. Then listen to the recording and check your answers.

Practice target
language

Exercise 7: Ss look at the table and repeat after you. T points out the meaning
of the words in bold. (subject pronouns / possessive adjectives)

Practice target
language

Exercise 8: Ss complete the sentences with possessive adjectives writing the

answers in their notebooks.

T - SS
T SS

board
T SS

partFinal

Exercise 9: Ss write the missing numbers in their notebooks. Check Ss

spelling and pronunciation of missing ordinal numbers.
Use target
language

Ss Ss
T SS

Ending the lesson:

Exercise 10: Ask Ss to order the months, then listen and check.

T-S
S-S

SB

10
min

Exercise 11: Check that Ss understand the layout of the calendar and the
meaning of birthday. Ask Ss to listen to the recording.
Homework: Exercise 12